The opening is a little confusing but then it finds its feet and the series moves pretty decently along.

Cassandra Cain is a great character, appearing here in a very early state. There are also some nice plotlines in this comic, revolving around Barbara Gordon's evolving relationship with Cassandra and Batman's shocked discoveries about her (though I find it hard to believe that he didn't already know or suspect what he discovers).Unfortunately, this volume has problems of muddiness in both the artwork and the storytelling, which sometimes makes it hard to follow. I also find the psychic who sudde...

Extremely boring

After I was so pleasantly surprised with that Supergirl book, I thought I'd try my hand at Batgirl, thinking, "It's written by the same bloke, if he can make one spin-off character work he can make another, and this time I actually like the original character so even more likely I'll like this". Hm. It didn't go down that way. The book itself was very meh. Just meh.Also I'm not a fan of so-disabled-it's-like-being-better-than-abled. Daredevil, I'm looking at you. So I was disappointed that they

Meet Cassandra Cain. She's a teenage girl who was “adopted” (or kidnapped depending on wordplay) by an elite assassin and never developed her speech patterns much. As a result she is specially gifted by attuning herself to body language and movements which make her a puissant fighting machine. Additionally, as you can tell by the costume she doesn't have to really have the usual eye slits./>The focus in this series is upon Cain dealing with her traumatic past as a child (her adopted father only

Batgirl is an American comic book series published by DC Comics. Cassandra Cain became the first Batgirl to be featured in an eponymous ongoing comic book series. At first she is discovered by Batman and sent to live with Barbara Gordon, currently functioning as Oracle. Batgirl: Silent Running collects Batgirl #1–6 of the 2000 on-going series.This storyline takes place after the events of No Man's Land. In the midst of No Man's Land, Batman gave a nameless girl with a violent past called Cassand...

This is one of those wherein I'm unsure whether to give it 3.5 stars or 4. Due to the nature of everything and stuff, I'll just give it 3 stars. Because . . . reasons.I have a feeling that I've run across Cassandra Cain before. Though, if I had, and I've a strong idea that I had, the appearance had been a cameo. I recall a strong silent Batgirl in a few scenes in something else.The idea is somewhat absurd. Assassin believes he can train someone to be the best, to be 'perfect' by isolating them a...

**Super-Woman Buddy read with the Shallow Comic Readers, criteria being a book headlined by a female character***This is the first volume of the Batgirl title that featured Cassandra Cain under the cowl. The daughter of an assassin, she was trained from an early age in various martial arts, and was taught to use the part of her brain normally reserved for speech to interpret her opponent's moves. What? OK, so she's mute, basically, and this plays a big part of the plot of the story.Batgirl is wa...

I've come to realize that this, and probably the next volume or two, were part of the three volume run by Scott Peterson and Kelley Pucket. Maybe not all of it, but a few issues I've come to recognize from it. However, since what's included in later volumes of this run is not included in said three volume run, I am okay with rereading this section again, as it is an enjoyable read.

I was a bit nervous to start this book as I'm so new to DC comics in general and the character of Cassandra Cain that I only found out she existed a week ago. I shouldn't have worried; this was a great introduction.Cass/Batgirl was raised by a master assassin who channeled her capacity for language into combat skills: she's so fluent in body language that she can anticipate her opponent's every move, but lacks the ability to speak, a combination that fascinates Batman and frustrates Barbara Gord...

There were some art issues - a fair number of times, usually in fight scenes, I couldn't really tell what was going on - but I really enjoyed the story as an introduction to Cass Cain. There was also a lot of Bruce being a weird but lovable asshole, which is always good.

Cassandra Cain is not your average teenager. Raised at a young age by the assassin David Cain, Cassie is a unique killer, one who was trained to read boy movement as language. As such, she can predict her opponents' moves as they think them, making her almost unbeatable in a fight. Unfortunately this training stunted her verbal language skills. She can barely speak and only understands what others are saying by reading their body language. In Silent Running, Cassie has been taken away from Cain

the art was horrible but cassie was a gift bruce doesn't deserve her

I love Cassandra Cain as Batgirl. I don’t have a lot of fierce DC opinions because it’s not my playground but if you put my back to the wall, I can talk a mean game about how they never should have made Barbara Batgirl again (she was perfect as Oracle) and they never, ever should have screwed over Cassandra so much before deleting her from reality in their stupid drive to reboot everything for a temporary sales bump. This is Cassandra Cain at her best—confused, compassionate, and capable—and I l...

So far Casandra has spoken only through body language, but sudden events unleash words on her. With this new knowledge will Batgirl be able to continue as a perfect fighter and will Casandra be able to learn how to speak?

I’ve been intrigued by the idea of Cassandra Cain as Batgirl ever since I heard about this series; I love the idea of a girl trained so intensively to be an assassin that she knows no language, but can interpret vast amounts from movement, even from tiny cues in body language. It’s fascinating because it’s to some degree possible; “feral children” without language who weren’t exposed to language during their critical period for learning it have existed, and who knows? Maybe they do learn to pay

Hard to follow at first and it still kinda is but I'm not gonna give up yet

Batgirl/Cassandra Cain was definitely the breakout star of the sprawling early ‘00s Batman storyline, No Man’s Land. The full-face mask and the not speaking made her extra-mysterious and cool. It’s taken me a while to check out her solo series but I kinda wished I hadn’t bothered as unfortunately it’s not very good. Writers Scott Peterson and Kelley Puckett reveal her unremarkable, almost cliched, origins, and she goes up against some disposable goons to show us that she’s a badass - which we al...

I wanted to read more Cassandra Cain, but the beginning of this series is very rough. Plotlines are dropped or added with no explanation, the flow of panels often breaks down, and the artist struggles with emotions that aren't stoicism.

10 trillion stars!....I've read the first three volumes so far, and it is brilliant.....so believable, I feel like it's really happening......moving, funny at times, action packed.......Damion Scott is now one of my favorite artists ever....such a unique and strange style he has....and it conveys so much motion...and so much emotion.......he makes me care so much for Cassandra in the way that he draws her facial expressions......I'm going to read the fourth volume soon.......I think she calls he...